Listed Building record TQ 66 SW 91 - FAIRSEAT MANOR AND GARDEN WALL TO NORTH
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 6220 6143 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ66SW |
County | KENT |
District | TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
Civil Parish | STANSTED, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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Type and Period (1)
Full Description
Description from record TQ 66 SW 20 :
TQ 62206144 Fairseat Manor (NAT) (1) Fairseat Manor and garden wall to north elevation of circa 1700 to c17 rear block. Grade II (2) Fairseat manor built for John Cox, who died in 1736. The doorcase with its cornice curving up to a point in the middle is characteristically early Georgian, and so are narrow windows beside it. (3)
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 66 SW STANSTED VIGO ROAD 2/11 (south side) 1.8.52 Fairseat Manor and garden wall to north
II*
House. Elevation of circa 1700 to C17 re.ar block. Red brick with blue headers and red dressings and pilasters. Concealed slate roof. 2 storeys on brick plinth with platband and tall parapet with band. 2- 2- 2 bay facade, divided by 4 giant pilasters, each surmounted by a plaster wren above the cornice. Glazing bar sashes in flat-arch surrounds, the side dressings carried up as vertical bands of red headers. Small slit glazing bar sash windows either side of door and above on 1st floor. Central panelled door in flat doorcase of fluted Tuscan pilasters, the entablature with ogee ornament and dentilled cornice. C17 brick and tile-hung block to rear, gabled at each end. Interior. 2 c.1700 panelled rooms and panelled hall with 3-flight newel staircase behind on ground-floor. 1 panelled room on 1st floor. Bolection moulding fireplaces in all these rooms. Evidence of timber-framing in rooms on block behind, especially roof joists and wall-plates.
Listing NGR: TQ6220261440 (4)
<1> OS 1:2500 1976 (OS Card Reference). SKE48218.
<2> DOE (HHR) Dist of Tonbridge & Malling Kent 1984 16 (OS Card Reference). SKE40377.
<3> The Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 544 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE50137.
<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Sources/Archives (4)
- <1> SKE48218 OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1976.
- <2> SKE40377 OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist of Tonbridge & Malling Kent 1984 16.
- <3> SKE50137 OS Card Reference: The Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 544 (J Newman).
- <4>XY SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #36130 Building, ]
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Record last edited
Jun 21 2021 1:23PM